“ Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. "Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?". "Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not… ”
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“ Because her instinct has told her or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect, but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot. ”
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